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10 best books like The Complete Short Stories (J.G. Ballard): Libra, The Mind Parasites, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies, Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life, Cosmicomics, Italian Folktales, More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe

Libra
AuthorDon DeLillo
ISBN0140156046
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who...
The Mind Parasites
AuthorColin Wilson
ISBN0974935999
Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft’s dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archeological site. For over 200 years,...
The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
AuthorLaird Barron
ISBN1597800880

There is a great deal about Laird Barron's writing that I like very much. Unlike Stephen King (whose descriptive passages often resemble an exhaustive catalog of the contents of someone's pockets or purse), Barron has a poet's eye for detail and the knack for choosing the right phrase in order to...
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
AuthorThomas Ligotti
ISBN0143107763
Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)
 
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced...
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
AuthorClark Ashton Smith
ISBN0143107380
A much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural

Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him "perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living” or compel Fritz Lieber...
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
AuthorNatalie Goldberg
ISBN0553347756
Natalie Goldberg, author of the bestselling  Writing Down The Bones, teaches a method  of writing that can take you beyond craft to the  true source of creative power: The mind that is  "raw, full of energy, alive and  hungry."



Here is compassionate, practical,...
Cosmicomics
AuthorItalo Calvino
ISBN0156226006
Italo Calvino's extraordinary imagination and intelligence combine here in an enchanting series of stories about the evolution of the universe. He makes his characters out of mathematical formulae and simple cellular structures. They disport themselves among galaxies, experience the solidification...
Italian Folktales
AuthorItalo Calvino
ISBN0156454890
One of the New York Times’s Ten Best Books of the Year: These traditional stories of Italy, retold by a literary master, are “a treasure” (Los Angeles Times).
 
Filled with kings and peasants, saints and ogres—as well as some quite extraordinary plants and animals—these two...
More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
AuthorM.R. James
ISBN1557425574
The follow-up volume to "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" collects seven more of Montague Rhodes James's classic horror stories, including "A School Story," "The Rose Garden," "Casting the Runes," and "Martin's Close."

"...gifted with an almost diabolic power of calling horror by gentle...
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe
AuthorD.G. Compton
ISBN0575118318
A forgotten SF classic that exposed the pitfalls of voyeuristic entertainment decades before the reality show craze.

A few years in the future, medical science has advanced to the point where it is practically unheard of for people to die of any cause except old age. The few exceptions provide...
Trout Fishing in America
AuthorRichard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. He came of age during the Haight-Ashbury period and has been called “the last of the Beats.” His early books became required...
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